Brake-head.



PATBNTED DB0( 29,. 190s.V W. D; SARGBNT.

BRAKE HEAD.

wAPPLIUATION FILED JUNI: 8. 190s.

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Jaton JMS @y Patented December 29, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM D. sARoENT, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., AssioNoR 'ro AMERICAN BRAKE SHOE a FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A OOR- PORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BRAKE-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,106, dated December 29, 1903.

Application filed June 8, 1903. Serial No. 160,476. (No model.) i

To @ZZ whom it may concern/3 Beit known that L WILLIAM D. SARGENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Brake-Head, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to Wheel brakes and particularly to the means for holding the wearing block or brake shoe upon the brake beam, such as in common use upon railway cars. Its objects are, to provide a brake head which is very small and compact and economical in use of metal; to provide for the use of a cast brake head of the narrow proportions necessary for use where the brake head is mounted directly on the brake beam; to provide a cast brake head with a malleable strengthening element with malleable attaching lugs to co-operate with the attaching lug of the brake shoe; to provide a brake head which allows of the brake shoe being brought in close proximity to the brake beam itself; and to generally improve the construction of brake heads.

The above objects, together with other advantages which will hereinafter appear, Itattain by means of the construction illustrated in preferred form in the accompanying drawings, wherein,-

Figure l isaside elevation of my improved brake head.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the same, the wires forming the retaining lugs being shown in dotted lines.

Figure 3 is an under plan view of the same, and

Figure 4 is a central cross sectional view of the brake head.

In common railway practice the brake head is generally made of cast metal in all cases where there is sufficient room between the brake beam and the wheel to allow of the re'- taining lugs of the brake head being made of cast metal. Thisrequires considerable thickness underneath the Open part of the brake head and a considerable thickness of metal in the cast lugs. In those cases where there is not sufficient room between the brake beam and the wheel to allow of the use of the cast lugs it is customary to put the brake head on the beam itself, generally surrounding it by a ring, and in this case the brake shoe and head are made together in one piece, and sometimes the brake head is made of malleablemetal. It will be understood that the brake head rests upon the shoe by means of the four feet or legs das shown in the drawing and that the brake shoe is held in close contact with the head by means of a key which passes through the eye formed by the lugs e' and through a central lug upon the brake shoe itself. Since the strain upon the contact legs d of the brake head is purely compression, it may be convenient to form the brake head of cast metal,if provision be made for a proper retaining lug near the center under the brake beam.

In Order to improve and simplify the brake head I providea malleable metal insert, which may be either a series of straps embedded in the metal as in the case of some of the shoes upon the market, orI may use the embedded wires shown in the drawings, which are preferably carried around through the ring b of the brake head and at the bottom are looped and doubled as shown at e to form two central attachinglugs.

Otherwise the lugs e might be forlned of a strap of flat metal running through the ring b around -the open eye o ofV the brake head and being provided with Openings to allow for the passage of the key through the keywayf, as will be understood. But I prefer the construction in which the wires e are used and doubled as shown in the drawings.

-By this construction I am enabled to reduce the space between the brake shoe and the brake `beam to an extremely small amount, and at the same time greatly strengthen the .brakehead, since the strap of malleable metal forming the eye lug runs around the brake beam itself and provides a perfectly safe and greatly strengtheningkey lug. This form of brake head is especially valuable for use in making a combined brake head and shoe of separable parts, but is evidently as useful for any other style of brake head as the one illustrated in the drawings. Other advau tages of the device will readily occur to those familiar with their use.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

l. A brake head having malleable attaching lugs embedded in acast body.

2. A castbrake head having malleable lugs for the attaching key embedded therein.

3. A cast brake head having attaching lugs formed of strips of malleable metal embedded in the casting and running around the eye in the head.

4. A brake head having attaching lugs formed of loops of malleable wires.

5. A brake head having attaching lugs formed of loops of malleable wire embedded in the head in casting.

6. A brake head having attaching lugs formed of malleable wire cast inthe metal of the head., and said Wires running around the ring inclosing the brake head eye.

7. A brake head formed of east metal with an eye for the brake beam and having embedded in the metal a loop of wire running around the eye and forming attaching lugs in the face of the head.

8. A cast brake head formed with an open eye and having embedded therein a pair of wrought wires in the ring of the eye and eX- tending below and doubled to form malleable attaching lugs for the brake shoe.

In testimony whereof I have hereunder signed my name in the presence of the two subscribed Witnesses.

wILLiAM D. SARGENT.

Witnesses:

BRoNsoN C. BUXTON, WILLIAM CoNovER. 

